it comes in threes

[TAB]

Saturday 11pm   64F...

6:41 am.  7 degrees

[Rastus]

6:41 am.  7 degrees

Looks like turnabout to me.

[crusader rabbit]

Here in Western North Carolina, in the warmth of southern hospitality, I woke up to 27 degrees this morning.  By Wednesday, the weatherperson says we will have a windchill factor around -12 F. 

Only part that really upsets me is the driving on ice part.  Dangerous past all understanding.  You can't even see the black ice on the road and before you know it, you're in a ditch or rolling down the mountain.  Cell phone service is spotty around here so being in a ditch can be a fatal happening. 

My daughter and grand kids are supposed to come up from Georgia on the 23rd and I am giving some thought to waving them off.  The freeways should be fine, but we live off a winding mountain road that is way down the list for salt or sand.  Daughter has lived in Hawaii for the last 10 years and has no experience driving on snow and ice. 

All I can say to the rest of you out there is Merry Christmas and stay warm.

Crusader Rabbit

[TAB]

Looks like turnabout to me.

8 am, still 7

[Rastus]

Ice on the road is a bad thing.  We were 70% chance of snow on Thursday and a -2 low but I guess it's associated with Gulf of Mexico air so now they are calling it rain.  I'd rather have the cold snow than the rain warm and drop from 40 to -2 degrees.  There's too much chance for frozen rain and iced up roads.  I would much rather the snow.  Where we are in the woods there will never be anything here to address the roads...and that's OK I like being remote.  Friday it's supposed to be a low of -4 now and a high of 14.  As far as the wind chill I've no idea we're always 8-15 MPH up here on winds during cold events.

And Tab, even if you switched places with those numbers it would not help!!!

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[Big Frank]

Here in Western North Carolina, in the warmth of southern hospitality, I woke up to 27 degrees this morning.  By Wednesday, the weatherperson says we will have a windchill factor around -12 F. 

Only part that really upsets me is the driving on ice part.  Dangerous past all understanding.  You can't even see the black ice on the road and before you know it, you're in a ditch or rolling down the mountain.  Cell phone service is spotty around here so being in a ditch can be a fatal happening. 

My daughter and grand kids are supposed to come up from Georgia on the 23rd and I am giving some thought to waving them off.  The freeways should be fine, but we live off a winding mountain road that is way down the list for salt or sand.  Daughter has lived in Hawaii for the last 10 years and has no experience driving on snow and ice. 

All I can say to the rest of you out there is Merry Christmas and stay warm.

Crusader Rabbit

I like that. Also, I don't think I could be paid enough to live off, or on, a winding mountain road. My mailman was wearing shorts today. Either; a) He's walking fast enough to feel the burn, b) His leg hair is warmer than it looks, or c) He's nuckin' futs. It's cold out there!